By Chuck Hustmyre
December 18, 2006
RED LAKE, Minn. (Crime Library) — The Red Lake Indian Tribe announced last week that it was adding $10,000 to the reward already being offered for information leading to the return of two boys missing for nearly a month.
The FBI is also offering a $20,000 reward.
According to investigators, the two boys, Avery Stately, 2, and his half-brother Tristan White, 4, disappeared between 9:30 and 9:50 on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 22—the day before Thanksgiving—while playing in their yard in a rural section of the Red Lake Indian Reservation known as Walking Shield.
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| Red Lake, Minn. |
The boys' mother, Alicia White, was inside their house and said she checked on them every few minutes. Shortly after 9:30 she called out to the boys. When they didn't answer, she went outside to look for them but couldn't find them.
"They were just playing outside," White told reporters. "That's the last time I saw them."
In less than an hour, tribal authorities launched a door-to-door search around Alicia White's small wood-framed house, which sits beside a dirt road in a heavily wooded area.
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| Tristan and Avery |
By afternoon, the FBI, which has jurisdiction in all major cases on the reservation, was on the scene and began to coordinate a more extensive search. Soon, other local and federal law enforcement agencies, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the U.S. Border Patrol, and an army of volunteers had joined the search for the two missing boys.
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